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An extensive list of the freshwater fish found in California, including both native and introduced species. [1] Common Name Scientific Name Image Native Non-Native
The Piscicolidae are a family of jawless leeches in the order Rhynchobdellida that are parasitic on fish. They occur in both freshwater and seawater, have cylindrical bodies, and typically have a large, bell-shaped, anterior sucker with which they cling to their host. [3]
The Glossiphoniidae, the freshwater jawless leeches, [citation needed] or leaf leeches (due to their shape) [11] are freshwater leeches, flattened, and with a poorly defined anterior sucker. [2] The family Glossiphoniidae contains one of the world's largest species of leech, the giant Amazon leech , which can grow up to 45 cm in length. [ 12 ]
The western brook lamprey is Not at Risk (Yellow List) and does not have a Species at Risk Act. [7] It spawns in spring until mid-summer when the water temperature is over 10 degrees Celsius. They create nests made out of gravel, and after hatching they are swept downstream into quieter parts of the stream and burrow into the ground.
The Clear Lake hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi) is a freshwater fish and a subspecies of the hitch (Lavinia exilicauda). It is a cyprinid fish that is endemic to Clear Lake, California. [3] They are large minnows that can grow to lengths that exceed 35 cm (14 in) standard length. [4] The fish has a life cycle of four to six years. [5]
They are sold live at many Asian fish markets in California. Historically, the Sacramento blackfish fishery comprised a majority of the commercial freshwater fishery supply in California. In 1960, Blackfish were valued at nearly $33,000, or 59% of the total value of all freshwater fish from California. [15]
The doomsday fish got its name because it looks like a mythical sea creature, with a long, ribbon-shaped body that can grow up to 30 feet. Rare "doomsday fish" spotted on a Southern California ...
Agnatha (/ ˈ æ ɡ n ə θ ə, æ ɡ ˈ n eɪ θ ə /; [3] from Ancient Greek ἀ-(a-) 'without' and γνάθος (gnáthos) 'jaws') is a paraphyletic infraphylum [4] of non-gnathostome vertebrates, or jawless fish, in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, consisting of both living (cyclostomes) and extinct (conodonts, anaspids, and ostracoderms, among others).